North Dakota native Ryan Blees’s college career has ended. The Bismarck native fell in Friday morning’s NCAA Championship consolation round two to Russell Rohlfing of Cal State-Bakersfield. Blees had a promising start to the tournament, upsetting #7 Kaden Gfeller in the first round before dropping a heartbreaking 3-1 overtime decision to Pat Lugo of Iowa. …
Ryan Blees and Iowa’s Pat Lugo battled back back and forth in tonights evening session at the NCAA wrestling championships in Pittsburgh, PA. The two fought through nine minutes of deadlock before Lugo was able to score a takedown :40 seconds into the fourth overtime period to win 4-2. Blees looked to be in control…
The U23 World Team Trials started as badly as possible for Bismarck native Ryan Blees. Wrestling for the Southeast Regional Training Center based in Blacksburg, VA where he will enter his senior season for the Virginia Tech Hokies this season, Blees was pancaked and pinned by Wisconsin’s Cole Martin after taking a leg shot and…
Entering the NCAA tournament as the twelve seed essentially means that a wrestler is set up to finish one match from the podium, and that is where Bismarck’s Ryan Blees finds himself entering his first NCAA championships this weekend. Essentially, Blees needs to win one more match than the seeds predict to become an All…
Over the last month, Ryan Blees has recorded a lot of wins for the Virginia Tech Hokies. On Saturday evening in Blacksburg, he made his first big statement. Blees upended #6 ranked Troy Heilmann of North Carolina 3-1 in Virginia Tech’s 21-9 drubbing of their ACC rival. Heilmann had the first major scoring chance on…
Bismarck native Ryan Blees is experiencing the best stretch of his college career, and the #10 Virginia Tech Hokies are reaping the benefits in the form of dual victories. Blees took the mat at 149 pounds Friday and Saturday in Tech home matches with Lehigh and Duke and the results were impressive. Against Lehigh, Blees…
Nebraska’s Jordan Shearer finished fifth at the Daktronics Open Sunday behind teammates Colton MCCrystal (First) and Collin Purinton (Third). Shearer started the day matched with #7 ranked Steve Bleise of Minnesota. In that match, Shearer gave up an early takedown, but countered with an escape and beautiful cutback single to take a 3-2 lead. The…
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